Plans are in the works to extend two Tokyo Metro subway lines, out of its network of 13, to relieve congestion in key areas and make it easier for tourists to travel around the capital.

For the most part, you’ll be dealing with Tokyo Metro and the Toei Subway. These are separate systems, and if you buy a single ride ticket on one, it won’t get you on the other.

More than 80 years after Tokyo’s first subway line opened between Asakusa and Ueno, the city gets another subway line, as Tokyo Metro opens the Fukutoshin line on Saturday. First planned back in 1985, ...

Complex map Tokyo Metro's nine lines -- named Ginza, Marunouchi, Hibiya, Tozai, Chiyoda, Yurakucho, Hanzomon, Namboku and Fukutoshin -- stretch for a total of 195 kilometres.

Tokyo Metro Co, which operates nine subway lines and 180 stations, is the larger of the Japanese capital’s two major metro operators – the other being Toei Subway – transporting about 6.5 ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced plans to construct two new subway lines in line with the city's development after the 2020 Summer Olympics. One of the proposed new lines will connect ...

Toei remains the "little brother," with four lines and 2.3 million passengers a day versus Tokyo Metro's nine lines and 6.3 million passengers. Not a Premium subscriber?

But learning how to navigate the capital's dozens of subway and train lines, hundreds of bus routes and handful of tram services can take years – hell, it could take a lifetime.

Fewer companies operate trains on the other three Toei lines. Setting up a radio system on train cars operated on the Asakusa Line would cost the metropolitan government an estimated 2 billion yen ...

Tokyo Metro shares rocketed more than 40% on their stock market, raising US$2.3 billion in Japan’s biggest IPO in six years. In 1927 Tokyo became the first Asian city with a subway thanks to a 2 ...

London built the first public underground railway, but in 1927 Tokyo became the first Asian city with a subway thanks to a 2.2-kilometer (1.4-mile) track from Ueno to Asakusa. The trains ran every ...